uncle uncle

Eroica Vintage/Classic (or HVC, heroic vintage/classic) is a made up term for outfitting your bike beyond merely a functioning vintage bike and/or riding like your cut from an older jib. It's a full stepping back, thru a porthole into the past, and back into another era of bicycle function. It's the difference between a total Suntour drive train for your Peugeot UO-8, and finding the last functional Simplex derailleurs with pliable delrin. The Suntour stuff has a certain honor (and practical sensibility), whereas the Simplex stuff is laying it all out there, "stranded 5 mile hike back to the house" gamble and all. Today's training ride is an "out-eat-back" with a leisurely cuppa and a big-as-your-head muffin at the cafe,; EVC is a banana stowed in the back of your wool jersey, washed down with a waterbottle filled from a garden house. What EVC quests did you partake in today?